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141) Pale: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some things just don't keep well inside this house ... The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd's invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household. The secrets of the house are plentiful yet...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the '60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, she hides the truth about her love orientation, creating emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her powerful attractions to women while pursuing false efforts to be with men. The watershed...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans were killed in war, students across four continents took over colleges and city streets. Assassins murdered Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. Demonstrators turned out in Prague and Chicago, and in Mexico City, young people and Olympic athletes protested. In those intense months, generations battled and the world wobbled on the edge...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius shows how the celestial aspirations of NASA's Apollo space program were tethered to terrestrial concerns, from the civil rights struggle and the antiwar movement to environmentalism,...
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 lined journal; 1 game- Category Snap card game; 1 cloth activity center, 1 Pure 60's CD, 1 1,960'S memory lane (paperback, large print), 1 The caregiver's guide to dementia: practical advice for caring for yourself and your loved ones (paperback) : Transparent clear backpack plastic bookbag ; 12 in. x 16 in. x 6 in.
Language
English
Description
Description for 1960's Memory Lane: "This book is aimed at patients with early stage dementia who like reading but find it hard to follow 'normal' books. With 18pt large print, short easy to follow paragraphs and plenty of full colour illustrations, the book looks at everyday life in the 1960s in Britain and the USA. It is intended to help stimulate long-term memories of those who lived through the 1960s, with sections on music, films, fashion, sport,...
147) Memory Lane
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
4 books : b&w illustrations ; 26 cm + hang up bag (33414027175979
Language
English
Description
"These books are packed with pictures about life in the USA and Great Britain, showing musians, singers, pop stars, Hollywood actors, cars, houses, workplaces, holidays and gadgets. " - back covers.
148) Sentimental reflections: Series eighteen, Edition three,America's heritage in story, scenery & song
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 47 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stories about various aspects of American life. Features unique places, people, and music, all selected to foster a feeling of nostalgia toward the parts of life often forgotten.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the incredibly contentious and surprisingly close friendship of its two most colorful characters. Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley, Jr., were towering figures who argued publicly about every major issue of the 1960s: the counterculture, Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, the Cold War. Behind the scenes, the two were close friends and trusted confidantes who lived surprisingly parallel lives. In Buckley and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
390 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
'By the Light of Burning Dreams' chronicles some of the most important moments of activism from the 60s and 70s, and ties them into the arrival of today's major political players and major progressive movements. David and Margaret Talbot are both very well-connected, with contacts such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., George R.R. Martin,Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, and Oliver Stone. From the founder of Salon, and the author of 'The Devil's Chessboard.'...
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